College of Medicine News

Fourth-year medical student Xamil Vega is the second student from the College of Medicine to receive the scholarship.

Doctoral candidate Valeria Flores-Malavet, who is studying how pregnancy affects the immune system, received the McKnight Dissertation Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year.

The Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation funds interdisciplinary healthcare innovation at UCF.

Lily Chen was awarded the Excellence in Public Health Service Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service for using her bioengineering expertise to create makeshift ventilators.

The UCF alum shares about his success in leading the charge to create Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine and opening up the possibilities for the future of medicine.

The projects aim to investigate advancements in communications and bone cell activity in altered gravity.

For the study, the team analyzed statistics from the Florida Cancer Data system, and reviewed women who were diagnosed with breast cancer in Florida from 1990 – 2015, according to race and ethnicity.

Mays Alani, who had difficulties finding a U.S. residency after earning her M.D. in Bahrain, is one of the first four neurologists to graduate from the UCF-HCA residency.

Salvador Almagro-Moreno was chosen because of his expertise on emergent marine pathogens, which are often overlooked when dealing with global health threats.